Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. John Keats More Quotes by John Keats More Quotes From John Keats Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death John Keats phantoms dream sleep I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures. John Keats love romantic believe Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening. John Keats wine doors book That queen of secrecy, the violet. John Keats queens flower violet I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! John Keats sky beautiful art I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. John Keats beautiful-love inspiration love-is I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence. John Keats real feelings past Load every rift with ore. John Keats rift load crafts I always made an awkward bow. John Keats bows awkward farewell How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy. John Keats flower death thinking There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done. John Keats done half use Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come. John Keats thank-god dying easy Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories. John Keats loneliness eye dream Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away. John Keats twilight summer dream But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings! John Keats sky wings heaven The thought, the deadly thought of solitude. John Keats solitude A drainless shower John Keats poetry light half For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. John Keats pulse experience philosophy I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. John Keats latter despair energy The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. John Keats intensity excellence art
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